Aussie Travels Europe on 10 euros a day, including accommodation, and gives tips on how you can do the same

Ever wanted to travel the world? Is your bank balance the reason you haven’t been able to yet?

Most of us save up all year to go abroad but Imogen Blow is travelling the globe for just 10 Euros (£8.88) a day — and she wants to show you how to do it too.

The frugal travel blogger has been to 65 cities in 10 months including Lisbon, Venice and Paris — which recently topped the world’s most expensive cities list (goals, right?).

Her drone and selfie stick go everywhere with her and Instagram feed shows the intrepid Australian diving off the coast of Santorini, leaping from sand dunes in the Sahara, balancing hundreds of feet up on top of Greek ruins and watching a sunset in Marseille, her trademark ginger curls blowing in the wind.

Imogen said while it may look like a dream lifestyle anyone can do the same as all it takes is planning and a smile.

She says if you want it enough, you can always get it. Money is just a commodity that allows you to buy material goods, but people also forget there are other commodities like kindness. If you’re kind, generous with the little you have, people will help you.

She saves cash by sofa surfing — sleeping for free in homes found through an app, making her own vegetarian meals, mainly pasta in bulk, hitchhiking, walking and getting free train rides through a sponsorship with Eurail.

She says she doesn’t really need a lot to be happy when travelling. Give her a drone and an amazing coastline — forget the fancy restaurants or museums. Not that those things aren’t cool, they just don’t interest her, of course.

She relies on apps such as Skyscanner, Airbnb, Eurail and Google maps to help her plan and save and the only time she goes over budget is for bus travel, but she is then even more frugal to make up for it.

Imogen has gone days of spending €0 consecutively. Sometimes her host is happy for her to use their ingredients to cook a feast for them. Sometimes she’s had to stretch €6–10 across four days when she runs out of money. That means a little fasting and free activities for a bit.

The priciest place she has been is her native Australia, which the 23-year-old set off 10 months ago after finishing university with only a backpack and $15,000 AUD (£8,161) in the bank.

After she graduated, she didn’t want to grow up and get a job just yet. Everyone in Australia travels post-uni so she did just that.

After touring her homeland she headed to the UK where she visited Kensington Palace and climbed Snowdonia. She has so far made it around 19 countries including Cambodia, Ireland, Belgium, Morocco, Canada, Vietnam, Germany and China.

Skiing in Switzerland is her highlight while Amalfi, Santorini, Annecy and Granada also impressed. But she didn’t like the non-touristy parts of Pompeii and said Fez in Morocco was a little scary at times.

She reveals that people make or break a place. And it’s what you make of a place too — you can’t expect to have a great experience if you don’t actively explore the place to find the good bits.

It isn’t always plain sailing. Disasters include getting bitten by a spider in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, infected bed bug bites in Athens and painting shells next to a homeless man for the three days in Asia after having her account drained by a dodgy ATM.

She also had a scary hitchhiking experience in Sardinia and ended up dashing for safety after the male driver said he wanted to see her naked. She said it shattered her “everyone is lovely” delusion.

However, she maintains solo travelling is an amazing experience as long as you are sensible.

Her top three tips for women to stay safe are to get a SIM card so you can always call for help, don’t go out alone at night and to walk with purpose.

Don’t wander around without direction, and don’t stop walking when seedy guys start talking to you. As soon as you stop you’re a sitting duck.

Are you ready to travel the world on a budget?